Ghashiyah v. Litscher

ORDER

In 2001 Wisconsin prisoner Tayr Kilaab al Ghashiyah, a Muslim who legally changed his name from John Casteel twenty years ago, sued the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) and several of its officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that they violated his rights by denying him religious property, refusing to accommodate his religious dietary restrictions, and refusing to allow him to use his legal name, all at several different prisons over a span of 11 years. Ghashiyah appeals from the district court’s award of summary judgment to the defendants. For the following reasons, we…